430 ILCS 185/20: Whistleblower protections.

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

(a) A frontier developer shall not make, adopt, enforce, or enter into a rule, regulation, policy, or contract that prevents a covered employee from disclosing, or retaliates against a covered employee for disclosing, information to the Agency, Attorney General, a federal authority, a person with authority over the covered employee, or another covered employee who has authority to investigate, discover, or correct the reported issue, if the covered employee has reasonable cause to believe that the information discloses that:

(1) the frontier developer's activities pose a specific and substantial danger to the public health or safety resulting from a catastrophic risk; or

(2) the frontier developer has violated this Act.

(b) A frontier developer shall not enter into a contract that prevents a covered employee from making a disclosure protected under the Whistleblower Act.

(c) A covered employee may use the Attorney General's Workplace Rights Hotline to make reports described in subsection (a).

(d) A frontier developer shall provide a clear notice to all covered employees of their rights and responsibilities under this Section, including by doing either of the following:

(1) at all times posting and displaying within any workplace maintained by the frontier developer a notice to all covered employees of their rights under this Section, ensuring that any new covered employee receives equivalent notice, and ensuring that any covered employee who works remotely periodically receives an equivalent notice; or

(2) at least once each year, providing written notice to each covered employee of the covered employee's rights under this Section and ensuring that the notice is received and acknowledged by all of those covered employees.

(e)(1) A large frontier developer shall provide a reasonable internal process through which a covered employee may anonymously disclose information to the large frontier developer if the covered employee believes in good faith that the information indicates that the large frontier developer's activities present a specific and substantial danger to the public health or safety resulting from a catastrophic risk or that the large frontier developer violated this Act, including a monthly update to the person who made the disclosure regarding the status of the large frontier developer's investigation of the disclosure and the actions taken by the large frontier developer in response to the disclosure.

(2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the disclosures and responses of the process required by this subsection (e) shall be shared with officers and directors of the large frontier developer at least once each quarter.

(B) If a covered employee has alleged wrongdoing by an officer or director of the large frontier developer in a disclosure or response, subparagraph (A) shall not apply with respect to that officer or director.

(f) This Section does not impair or limit the applicability of the Whistleblower Act, including with respect to the rights of employees who are not covered employees to report violations of this Act.